Updating the kernel from version 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 to 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1Edit

Created 2009-04-01, updated 2026-03-16

Basic procedure

sudo -i
yum --disableexcludes=all check-update
yum --disableexcludes=all update 'kernel*'
reboot

The machine took about 10 minutes to come back up on rebooting. It usually only takes a couple of minutes, so I am going to check the logs to see if there is anything fishy.

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